We grow up never questioning that which is unquestioned around us.
MARGARET MEADFathers are biological necessities, but social accidents.
More Margaret Mead Quotes
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It may be necessary temporarily to accept a lesser evil, but one must never label a necessary evil as good.
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It used to be when we said, ”til death do us part,’ death parted us pretty soon. That’s why marriages used to last forever. Everybody was dead.
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The most intractable problem today is not pollution or technology or war; but the lack of belief that the future is very much in the hands of the individual.
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The time has come, I think, when we must recognize bisexuality as a normal form of human behavior.
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Monogamous heterosexual love is probably one of the most difficult, complex and demanding of human relationships.
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Human nature is almost unbelievably malleable, responding accurately and contrastingly to contrasting cultural conditions.
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People are still encouraged to marry as if they could count on marriage being for life, and at the same time they are absorbing a knowledge of the great frequency of divorce.
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There is no lonelier person than the one who lives with a spouse with whom he or she cannot communicate.
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I have a respect for manners as such, they are a way of dealing with people you don’t agree with or like.
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Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else.
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If a fish were an anthropologist, the last thing it would discover would be water.
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The people of one nation alone cannot save their own children; each holds the responsibility for the others’ children.
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I had my father’s mind, but he had his mother’s mind. Fortunately, his mother lived with us and so I early realized that intellectual abilities of the kind I shared with my father and grandmother were not sex-linked.
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An ideal culture is one that makes a place for every human gift.
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And when our baby stirs and struggles to be born it compels humility: what we began is now its own.
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